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ford has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am working on UNIX machine which has got Perl-5.6.1 by default.As i need Perl 5.8.8 I set some environment variables and convert 5.6.1 to 5.8.8 . this i do it manually all the time. can anyone suggest me any way so that the environment variables get set permanently and i don't have to keep setting all the time. Thanks in Advance Ford..

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Re: perl version by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Feb 19, 2008 at 15:43 UTC
Suggested reading: Environment variable Unix shell Shebang bash or whichever shell you are using. -- Andreas	[reply]
Re^2: perl version by ford (Novice) on Feb 20, 2008 at 05:09 UTC
Hi, Thanks for the advice. I am able to set the environment variables manually. But is there anyway so that these variables get set permanently. Thanks in Advance Ford.	[reply]
Re^3: perl version by ferreira (Chaplain) on Feb 20, 2008 at 11:33 UTC
Environment variables are sort of a shell thing (because the shell usually provides the OS environment which surrounds your computations/program invocations). You may add some default settings of specific environment variables to the profile files that your shell reads at session startup (eg. ".profile" or ".bash_profile") and you'll get the behavior you want. That's what Andreas was telling about when he provided pointers where you could read about shell features.	[reply]
Re^4: perl version by ford (Novice) on Feb 20, 2008 at 11:56 UTC
Re: perl version by stiller (Friar) on Feb 19, 2008 at 14:49 UTC
~~What are you actually doing? You have code that needs Perl 5.8.8 and you make what pretend that you have something more modern than 5.6.1?~~ update: aha, reading the below reply it all becomes clearer, even to me. You HAVE both 5.6.1 and 5.8.8, but the default environment is for 5.6.1? Then Andreas advice is very good.	[reply]